CLOSE Statement

The CLOSE statement allows the resources held by a cursor variable or open cursor to be reused. No more rows can be fetched from the cursor variable or closed cursor.

Syntax:

Keyword and Parameter Description

cursor_name:

These identify an explicit cursor previously declared within the present scope and presently open.

 cursor_variable_name:

These identify the PL/SQL cursor variable previously declared within the present scope and presently open.

host_cursor_variable_name:

These identify a cursor variable declared in the PL/SQL host atmosphere and passed to the PL/SQL as a bind variable. The host cursor variable datatype is well-suited with the return type of any PL/SQL cursor variable. The host variables should be prefixed with a colon.